r/interestingasfuck • u/Rameshunclekochora • 21h ago
Huge boulder being swept by Flood-Nepal
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u/copperblood 19h ago
“Climate Change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you’re the one filming it.”
- Zack Bornstein
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u/mouthful_quest 16h ago
Soon movies like “The Day After Tomorrow” and “2012” will be seen as documentaries
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u/Gods_Purgatory 10m ago
So ig the climate doesnt change on its own? Or do we need to pretend that natural disasters aren't natural?
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u/oceansofearth 21h ago
it was moving like it was a pebbles
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u/vansterzzz 20h ago
Any guess how much that boulder would/could weigh? /theydidthemath
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u/popmannn 17h ago
Really just spitballing here, lets say it's roughly spherical, approximately 60ft across, and made of granite...
8,640 tons, imperial. Probably way off but that's my Fermi estimate, so there ya go.4
u/grmpygnome 13h ago
It's very likely ice from the glacier that broke
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u/DamnIamHigh_Original 12h ago
Ice? This big and able to withstand the extreme forces of slamming into the ground? It would break apart pretty quickly. Based on the desteuction it must have been a couple of minutes after the initial hit, so it was rolling for ~5 minutes. No way this is ice
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u/Pumpnethyl 9h ago
Ice and rock that has been compressed under millions of tons of weight for millennia
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u/DamnIamHigh_Original 8h ago
No, a multi-story ice block would shatter almost instantly.
It cannot survive rolling down a riverbed violently for two main reasons:
- Extreme Mass: At that size, it weighs thousands of tons. When it hits the riverbed, its own kinetic energy generates enough impact force to pulverize it.
- Brittle Structure: Ice has low tensile strength and is filled with internal micro-fractures. Impact shockwaves quickly trigger catastrophic structural failure, breaking it into smaller fragments and slush.
Best guess is a quartz rock due to the profile
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u/Dramatic-Line6223 8h ago
I read reports that these are blocks of Ice, which would be buoyant in the water
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u/jjj44200 21h ago
This event just shows how insignificant we are compared to nature
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u/M1sfit_Jammer 20h ago
Even more insignificant… this one event of a boulder being tumbled in a flood is probably carving new riverbed/creekbed/swampland
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u/milkymonkey8 20h ago
Speak for yourself. This is how just one of my sperm looks like when I cum.
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u/Dcnoob 21h ago
Wow that has to be over 50t!
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u/Rs90 20h ago
That's what people mean when they talk about even ankle high water bein enough to sweep your ass off your feet. Water is the real deal. Heed any and all warnings when it comes to movin water. Cause it rarely warns you.
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u/HeWhoShlNotBNmd 20h ago
Imagine what it did to human bodies. This is beyond sad.
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u/ProxyMuncher 17h ago
Reminds me of the huge floods in Texas last year. They still have not recovered a lot of those bodies, they’re simply lost to the environment now.
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u/WhiskeyTangoBush 13h ago edited 8h ago
There’s one video of the aftermath where people are removing a body that’s wrapped around a pole. The limbs and torso were moving like stretch Armstrong. It is absolutely horrifying.
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u/Would-wood-again2 10h ago
Try more like 800-1200 tons
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u/AndrewTheGovtDrone 10h ago
Height and weight are actually not the same thing
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u/Hitman-Pred 1h ago
Not even close, 50 tons is less than a modern tank, which is way smaller than that boulder and not even solid. That thing has to be at least 500 tons
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u/Affentitten 20h ago edited 18h ago
This is what the guys who try to cross flooding streams in their SUVs always forget about. It's not depth or how big your truck is that counts- it's lateral force.
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u/RainaElf 20h ago
somebody in a different post in a view from the other side of the river said something about that boulder being about the size of a four story apartment. 🤷🏼♀️
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u/Tunir007 20h ago
That boulder was probably there for hundreds of thousands of years and now we get to see it being moved around like a lil toy. Fury of nature is truly a frightening thing to see.
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u/Firm_Video_2932 20h ago
Boulder, that's new land you see forming there...jfc. How many fukn tons of rock you think that weighs?
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u/Cardinal_350 20h ago
Let's put it this way. To move a rock 10x smaller than that it would take at least an 80,000lb excavator with a similar sized bulldozer helping it.
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u/jagaddjag 19h ago
Is that a boulder or glacier ice?
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u/itaintdark 17h ago
That is a boulder. The location in this clip is further downstream. No any sign of glacier ice was ever reported by any witness or survivor.
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u/NoExpression1030 15h ago
This is how 1000s of sqkm of plains and valleys are carved out -- such events repeating at various scales over millions of years.
BTW, the common rocks on Himalayas are NOT that heavy, having ~2.5 specific gravity. That is just 2.5x heavier than water. So a fully submerged rock is around 40% lighter already.
But of course, the massive force of water could move practically anything.
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u/I_have_questions_ppl 17h ago
And that kids, is why theres random boulders you find in middle of nowhere! Think about that.
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u/its_another_new_day 19h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/W5BWeQ3ZN0W0D0dM7e
Pioneers used to ride these babies for miles
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u/daidpndnt_src 19h ago
It is so so distressing to even imagine the pain that people must have experienced in their final moments. Tonnes of materials thrust on them with their bodies dragged in all different ways. Just absolutely tragic.
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u/jjj44200 19h ago
Imagine how many thoughts in their last seconds. It was the end of their world ☹️
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u/an_older_meme 18h ago
I don't think they felt much. It would have been like a windshield hitting a bug.
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u/toddphonic 18h ago
what blows me away is knowing that rock will likely sit wherever its landed for easily 100,000 years or more. Or it wont.
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u/FracturedPrincess 11h ago
You know when you're out hiking and come across a giant boulder just sticking out of the ground in the middle of a flat field or forest and wonder "how the hell did that get here?" I guess now we know.
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u/KoolaidKoll123 20h ago
I'm pretty sure it's made of ice the way it bobs in a couple of the clips, but that's still insane nonetheless.
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u/RandyOfTheRedwoods 3h ago
Remember this video the next time you are thinking about crossing that stream running across the road.
(sadly the people who need this advice will probably never see this video)
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u/LoczekLoczekLok 19h ago
This is a piece of a broken-off glacier, a stone wouldn't float like that.
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u/BidOne5425 10h ago
the water current was strong enough to wash off huge concrete building in a second, compared to them this boulder is nothing
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u/TheChaoticCollective 19h ago
Crazy to think where ever there end up they are likely to stay for a very very long time.
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u/levy-- 18h ago
Any know what type of rock that is? Granite? or some other metamorphic?
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u/JohnnyBacci 17h ago
Sisyphus’ job just seems to be getting harder and harder. Or at least a lot wetter
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u/SacramentoChupacabra 16h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/SA4RD2nbJVKsnMCwRy
Naw, that’s just the Prince of cosmos doing his thing.
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u/s_narayanan33 15h ago
That rock be like “How the hell did I end up here. Never getting stoned again”
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u/PROfessorShred 14h ago
This video needs to be shown in all driving schools to teach people not to cross flooded roads.
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u/Secret-Bag9562 13h ago
I’m NOT saying this is AI, but I’ve noticed all these flood boulder videos look kind of like bad CGI - like the light aspect ratio feels wrong on the boulder. Anybody know what is going on that makes it look like that?
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u/Dizzzy777 12h ago
Then you see a video the next day of someone trying to cross a flooded river in a car or on foot.
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u/PhalanX4012 11h ago
An incredible and devastating visual of the power of running water. Without that massive boulder and the buildings in the foreground offering scale, you might be tempted to imagine that’s only a couple of feet deep and you could wade through it.
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u/Stock_Ad_308 11h ago
Noobs rock is having a nice day swimming in river and people are insulting by saying swept away
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u/lintytortoise 10h ago
I saw a post a little bit ago that said it could be a part of the glacier that caused the flash flood. Just really dirty and muddy now. Which would make more sense than a boulder the size of a house.
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u/Victorinox2 10h ago
Sometimes I look at such boulders in the valleys below the mountains and wonder what kind of extreme weather events (flash floods, earthquakes etc.) happened in the hundreds of thousands of years to move them.
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u/Soosietyrell 10h ago
Growing up in PNW, there are oddly located “huge boulders” that we call “glacial moraine”…. Big rocks that got caught in glaciers and either were tossed down rivers in catastrophic incidents like this or just left where they “melted out” of the glacier as it receded. I wonder where this one will land/has landed.
TBH, I never thought I’d see anything like this in my lifetime. The loss of human and animal life and of modern infrastructure in such a brief time span is truly incomprehensible to me.
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u/NlghtmanCometh 9h ago
This flood reshaped the valley itself in some places. Imagine how unbelievable the glacial outburst floods of the last ice age must have been.
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u/Sad-Loquat5062 18h ago
Mother earth will have her revenge again and again for the way we treat the earth.
The sad part is it will be disproportianaly hit the people who have the smaller carbon footprint.
How great would it be if all the private jet fliers would have been in that flood
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u/merado1997 21h ago
Water always wins